Category Archives: Conflict

New Boy’s Group Launches with Tremendous Success Kelly Antwine is pleased to announce the beginning of a new boy’s group which met for the first time on May 20th from 7:00 – 8:30 pm in his office at Preston Place Counseling located at 12700 Preston Road Suite 150, Dallas TX 75230. The group started with three […]

A Word about “Behaving” We have always known that there is value in making ourselves behave in ways that we don’t particularly want to do or feel like doing. One popular term is “Fake it ’til you make it.” Another is “Behaving ‘as if.’” The concept is this: We can make ourselves behave in ways […]

A Word about Gratitude What a wonderful holiday it is! Thanksgiving! It may be my favorite. No pressure to buy gifts. All we have to do is visit and eat and watch ball games (and eat). Of course, travel can be stressful as can be meal preparation. Also, being with people who we are normally […]

A Word about Holiday Stress Holidays can bring on a confusing array of emotions for anyone. We are out of our usual routines, and we frequently put undue stress on ourselves thinking that everything should be perfect. Thus, our expectations may be higher than usual, frequently of our own making. We are often with people […]

More than 20 years ago, Dr. John Gray gave us a new “language” for discussing inter-gender communication when he wrote, Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus. Fifteen years ago, Dr. Patricia Love added to the discussion with her, How to Improve your Marriage Without Talking About It, in which she pointed out several […]

According to the biblical story about the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11), when the Lord decided to put a stop to the building of the tower, he “confused” the peoples’ language, thereby making it impossible for them to communicate with each other. No communication, no progress. No progress, no completion. We have long known that […]

Irrational Thoughts Until recently it was believed that only 10 or 12 common irrational ideas caused most of human misery (Ellis & Harper, 1975). Now, it is thought that there are thousands of misery-causing false ideas (Ellis, 1987), a few of them are very obviously irrational but many are subtle and more convincing (but still […]

Where were you when the Boston Marathon Bombs exploded? Breaking news, yet again of another major national crisis. Two brothers have been allegedly identified for planting two bombs that exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon this past week. It is difficult, if not impossible to avoid the barrage of information cast out […]

By Dr. Harold Duncan You and I were not there to witness the terroristic Boston Marathon bombings on Patriots’ Day, 2013. Nor were we in West, Texas, two days later to experience the tragic explosion of the fertilizer plant and the many levels of devastation that ensued. However, most of us have seen those images […]

In discovering the truth in your life, Kelly Antwine suggests asking yourself this simple question: Is what you’re doing adding meaning to your life? And so goes part 10 of our special series on Freedom From Conflict.